Professor Kevin T. PICKERING

Department of Geological Sciences
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Students:

PostgraduateM.Sc./M.Res.Post-Doctoral

Postgraduate Students

1984-1987 Keith Myers, PhD

Applications of onshore outcrop gamma-ray logs in sedimentary environments, and their comparison with downhole logs. Funded by Charterhouse Petroleum/Petrofina. Co-supervised with Dr. J.K. Leggett, Imperial College. Awarded PhD October 1987.

Employment: Stratigrapher, BP, London.

1986-1989 Richard J. Blewett, PhD

Significance of major tectonic lineaments, New Bay area, Newfoundland, Canada. NERC Appeal Studentship. Awarded PhD October 1989.

Employment: Senior Geologist, Australian Geological Survey.

1987-1990 Tommy McCann, PhD

Sedimentology and palaeontology of the late Ordovician - Silurian, Dinas Head to Aberystwyth, Wales. Privately funded. Awarded PhD April 1990.

Employment: Post-doctoral student, Germany.

1989-1993 Sarah J. Davies, PhD

Radiochemical evolution of the Devonian Orcadian Basin, NE Scottish mainland and islands. BP CASE Studentship with NERC. Awarded PhD May 1993.

Employment: Lecturer in Sedimentology, University of Edinburgh.

1990-1994 Julian D. Clark, PhD

Deep-marine channel and interchannel architecture and processes, from sidescan sonar interpretation and the early Tertiary of the Spanish Pyrenees. Institute of Oceanographic Sciences CASE Studentship with NERC. Awarded PhD July 1994.

Employment: Senior Research Fellow, Heriot-Watt University.

1990-1995 Vincent C. Hilton, PhD

Architecture of high-continuity sandbodies, Eocene-Oligocene of SE France. NERC Studentship. Awarded PhD March 1995.

Employment: Geologist Z&S Associates, Aberdeen.

1991-1995 John J. Millington, PhD

Architecture and controls on submarine lobe development, and the nature of channel-lobe transitions, from sidescan sonar interpretation, laboratory experiments and the Eocene Hecho Group, Spanish Pyrenees. Institute of Oceanographic Sciences CASE Studentship with NERC. Awarded PhD September 1995.

Employment: Geologist Z&S Associates, Aberdeen.

1991-1996 Nicholas J. Drinkwater, PhD

Architecture and controls on development of a deep-marine sheet-like turbidite system, late Precambrian, Arctic Norway. BP-funded PhD. Awarded PhD July 1997. Employment: Geologist, Schlumberger Research Laboratories, Connecticut, U.S.A.

1991-1995 Clair Souter, PhD

High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene Kasuza Group, central Japan, with special reference to the stable oxygen-isotope and Sr-isotope record of the deep-marine Kiwada, Otadai and Umegase Formations. NERC Studentship. Awarded PhD October 1995.

Employment: PGCE Bath University, Secondary School Science teacher.

1992-1996 Sarah E. Gabbott, PhD

Co-supervised with Dr Dick Aldridge, Leicester University.

Palaeontology and sedimentology of an upper Ordovician conservation Lagerstatte. NERC Studentship. Awarded PhD. 1996.

Employment: Post-doctoral student, University of Leicester.

1994- Ian Hayden, PhD

Miocene forearc evolution, southern Japan.

Employment: Computer business software specialist, Agfa Gerhart, Tokyo.

1994-1997 Jane Alexander, PhD

Rare earth elements in mud-rich sediments and their use as provenance indicators. NERC Studentship. Awarded PhD. January 1998. Employment: Post-doctoral position at Harvard University, U.S.A. (commenced November 1997).

1997- David Hodgson, PhD

Co-supervised with Prof. John Platt, University College London.

Stratigraphy and tectonics, Tabernas-Sorbas basins, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain.

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M.Sc./M.Res. Students

1995-96 Sian E. Lancaster, M.Res.

Vegetation changes associated with deglaciation in the Garhwal Himalayas, northern India.

Supervisor of M.Res. Environmental Science Research Dissertation, University College London.

1995-96 Rebecca Hardman, M.Res.

Style and timing of glaciations in southern Garwhal Himalayas: climate change implications.

Supervisor of M.Res. Environmental Science Research Dissertation, University College London.

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Post-doctoral Students

1994-1996 Dr. Julian D. Clark

Aspect Ratios of Modern and Ancient Channel Systems.

Employment: Senior Research Fellow, Dept. Petroleum Engineering & Geology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

1996-1997 Dr. Clare Stephens

Aspect Ratios of Modern and Ancient Turbidite Sheet-like Systems. Conoco UK.

Employment: Sedimentologists, Amoco, New Orleans, U.S.A.

1998-1999 Christianne Street

The Ainsa Deepwater Channel Project.

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